Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.
MAXIM GORKYOnly mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
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God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty each and every one of us.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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